Craig McDonnell has been named vice-president and general manager of TE Connectivity’s automation and control business, where he will work to expand the product portfolio into field applications.
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Astrix Networks (operating as Memex Automation) has qualified for up to $800,000 in Canadian government funding directed specifically towards the continued development of MERLIN software, its flagship product.
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Siemens Canada is hitting the road for its 2015 Innovation Tour, travelling to cities across the country to showcase its latest in PLCs, HMIs, IPCs, networks, RFID, drives, motors and industrial components.
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Canada Bread Company announced this week it is moving its Halifax bakery production to its other locations in New Brunswick. It will begin winding down operations this June and will close completely in November.
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Choosing the type of software infrastructure that you want any enterprise software system to run on is an important early step. From cloud to in-house, there are a range of trade-offs between risk, cost and service constraints that you make with each type of infrastructure.
Learn about the differences and trade-offs between each type of infrastructure from a business manager’s perspective.
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Whether you are an engineer, technician, manager, supervisor, electrician, or maintenance personnel, the Safety Compliance Workshop is THE safety event for you. Taking place April 29-30, it offers interactive workshops highlighting machine safeguarding, control of hazardous energy and electrical safety — all of which are important safety concerns for the manufacturing workplace.
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Spectronics describes its OPK-441 industrial leak detection kit as a starter kit designed to pinpoint the exact source of all leaks in hydraulic equipment, compressors, engines, gearboxes and fuel systems.
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Renishaw’s EZ-IO software for the Equator Flexible Gauge claims to make it easy for automation integrators to configure communications between Equator systems and a cell controller.
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